President Obama and Democrats in Congress say that starting over on health-care reform is akin to stonewalling. They are wrong, just as wrong as those who want to do nothing.

The problem is there is too much testosterone flying around the nation’s capitol and Americans are tired of the antics and political gamesmanship. It’s time to give them all an ice cold shower and send them back to work.

Reforming health care is not about social engineering; it is not about jamming an unpopular and expensive experiment down our throats. It is about building upon what is working and fixing what is not. read more »

I love your paper and usually (not always) agree with Lary Coppola’s editorials, but I think it’s time for Adele Ferguson to retire. I used to enjoy her articles in the Bremerton Sun, and thought they did her wrong in the end, and I was glad to see her column come back in the Herald. But it seems like she’s become a bitter racist in her old age. Maybe it’s time for a change.

Jean Simmons
Poulsbo

How can the KPBJ continue to publish Adele Ferguson’s muddled and often racist comments? In the February issue, she writes that President Obama appointed a “white Jewish woman” to the Supreme Court instead of a Black person as she expected.

In fact, the “white Jewish woman, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was appointed to the Court by Bill Clinton back in 1993!

It would be hard not to know that Obama’s 2009 appointment was Justice Sonia Sotomayor who gives her religion as Roman Catholic and is the first Hispanic on the Court.

It’s time for Adele to hang it up. read more »

What is the meaning of “bankrupt?” According to the President it means what will happen to this country if health care reform isn’t passed. On the other hand, the U.S. just exceeded its debt limit and soon Congress will be raising the debt limit. So, at what point would the U.S. be bankrupt? In this administration it will only go bankrupt if the health care bill isn’t passed, while spending this country into deeper and deeper debt is just business as usual.

We hear how the Social Security system will be “bankrupt” in 2017 and the Medicare system will be “bankrupt” in 2019. read more »

Everyday since this new administration took charge, I wake up and can’t believe this is my country! Many of my fellow citizens express the same feelings. It is insane!

If you needed evidence of it, aside from their plan to put us in debt up to our eyeballs, take the case of the Fort Hood Terrorist. They can’t make up their minds if he is a terrorist? You’ve got to be kidding! If that is not enough to convince you insanity rules, then what about the handling of the terrorists from Gitmo? read more »

As a member of Americans for Prosperity here in Washington, I understand that there’s nothing more critical for our state then holding the line and balancing the State budget without tax or fee increases. read more »

Policymakers in Olympia are looking hard at every available dollar these days. And while that scrutiny is welcome, community members and business leaders need to make sure our policymakers are taking a long-term view of each decision they make.

Making cuts to early learning and development programs today will impact both individual children and our collective community in the years to come. Closing programs that prepare young children to enter kindergarten and our school systems will profoundly hurt us all. read more »

As of this writing, this year’s legislative session is winding down, with the focus narrowing to closing the projected $2.8 billion budget deficit. The Democratic-controlled legislature has made it abundantly clear it doesn’t give a damn what voters facing the worst economic times since the Great Depression think or want. Both the House and Senate votes to suspend I-960 sent a clear message that the state employee unions — who bused in thousands of people off work for the President’s Day holiday to counter the Push Back Rally — are in charge, not the people who voted them into office. read more »